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Weather Sealing is a Gimmick.

Started Feb 19, 2015 | Discussions thread
Voldenuit
Voldenuit Senior Member • Posts: 1,648
Re: Weather Sealing is a Gimmick.
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Skeeterbytes wrote:

Confronted with two lenses of the same spec and price, one is sealed and one is not, which would you choose?

Cheers,

Rick

I'd pick the one with the best optical performance (not just sharpness, but also bokeh, coma, CA, contrast, other optical characterstics such as microcontrast, rendering, "look" etc).

If equal, I'd then pick the one with the best handling.

*Then* I would pick the weather sealed one, if it doesn't entail too many other compromises (size, weight).

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